Sigmar Gabriel; Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, in the opening speech:

Studies on potential by the German Aerospace Center find that solar thermal power plants in southern Europe and northern Africa* could play an important role in securing a sustainable European energy supply. I am very pleased about the power plant projects in Morocco, Algeria and Egypt, and about the planned projects in Libya and Jordan.

The idea is ground-breaking: it means that in 20 to 30 years we can procure part of our energy from solar power plants. To this end we need stronger regional cooperation and an investment boost in the expansion of a stable electricity grid. All this is already technically feasible. The electricity grid of the future will overcome borders and even the Mediterranean. One day, the European "super grid" will be able to transfer electricity produced in solar thermal power plants to central Europe – without any power cuts! European neighbourhood policy should support these investments to the same extent as the expansion of oil and gas pipelines.__________________________________* Studies may be viewed from first page

Site design reflects the programme the yellow sun glaze at the top produces, beside electricity, the light blue clean water out of the dark blue salty ocean which is all around ... thus lets the flowers of prosperity grow in the EU-MENA region.